Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970
The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 was an Act of the
In practice two daily newspapers published in the same city or geographic area combine business operations while maintaining separate—and competitive—news operations.
History
The first joint operating agreement was between
Arrangements similar to this allowed most medium-sized United States cities to have two daily newspapers until fairly recently. The number of joint operating agreements, as well as the number of evening-published daily newspapers, has declined considerably in recent years, due to the ongoing consolidation of the newspaper industry as a whole, and the decline in readership and interest in evening newspapers in particular, which many observers have attributed to television and the internet, of which the former seems to be magnified by the presence of several 24-hour-a-day news operations on
The Newspaper Preservation Act was touted as a relief measure to allow multiple newspapers competing in the same market to cut costs, thus ensuring that no one paper could have supremacy in the market by driving the other(s) out of business. However, mounting evidence suggests the passage of the Act was less about protecting editorial diversity within community newspaper markets than about inflating the profit margins of national newspaper chains.
He reversed himself upon receiving a letter from Richard E. Berlin, CEO of the
Cities with newspaper joint operating agreements
- Media News Group, formerly owned by Gannett)
- Las Vegas, Nevada—Las Vegas Review-Journal (owned by News + Media Capital Group) and the Las Vegas Sun (owned by Greenspun Media Group): as of November 2005, the Sun publishes as a daily insert inside the R-J (expires in 2040)
- Media News Group)
Cities with terminated newspaper joint operating agreements
- The E. W. Scripps Company) folded in 2008
- Anchorage, Alaska—Anchorage Daily News publishing, and Anchorage Times folded in 1978
- The E. W. Scripps Company) folded in 2005
- Media News Group, minority stake) merged into the Charleston Gazette-Mailin 2015.
- Chattanooga Times papers dissolved JOA in 1966, restored JOA in 1980; subsequently merged in 1999. Surviving paper named Chattanooga Times Free Press, merged paper maintains separate editorial pages
- The E.W. Scripps Company) (expired in 2007 with cessation of paper printing of The Post and its conversion to a website only publication on December 31, 2007)
- The E. W. Scripps Company) folded in 1985
- The E. W. Scripps Company) ended in 2009.
- El Paso, Texas—El Paso Times publishing, and El Paso Herald-Post folded in 1997
- The E. W. Scripps Company) folded in 1998. Surviving paper named Evansville Courier & Press
- Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette(family owned): News-Sentinel shut down 2020.
- Franklin, Pennsylvania and Oil City, Pennsylvania—Franklin News-Herald merged into Oil City Derrick in 1985
- Honolulu Star Bulletin (owned by Black Press of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, formerly owned by Liberty Newspapers of Florida, previously owned by Gannett) 2000 JOA terminated, both published until 2010 when the two papers merged into the Honolulu Star-Advertiser
- Knoxville, Tennessee—Knoxville News Sentinel publishing, and Knoxville Journal became weekly in 1991
- Miami News (owned by Cox Enterprises) folded in 1988
- Nashville, Tennessee—The Tennessean (owned by Gannett) publishing, and Nashville Banner (family/local ownership) folded in 1998
- The E. W. Scripps Company) folded in 1992
- Richmond News-Leader both owned by Media Generaluntil the afternoon paper, the News-Leader, folded in 1992
- Salt Lake City, Utah—Deseret News (owned by the Deseret Management Corporation) and The Salt Lake Tribune (owned by The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., a non-for-profit corporation) (On Oct. 26. 2020, The Tribune and the Deseret News released their decision to end the generations-long print partnership, as they both decided to reduce print publication to once a week. The JOA had been maintained by the jointly owned Newspaper Agency Company, LLC)
- The Hearst Corporation) 1999 JOA terminated when Hearst purchased the Chronicle and sold the Examiner. Both newspapers still publish, though the Examiner is now a free tabloid.
- The Hearst Corporation) and The Seattle Times (family owned)—(expired in 2009 with the cessation of the Post-Intelligencer's print edition)[5]
- Shreveport Times publishing, and Shreveport Journalfolded in 1991
- Globe-Democrat'x again operated independently until folding in October 1986.
- Tucson, Arizona—Arizona Daily Star (owned by Lee Enterprises) and the Tucson Citizen (owned by Gannett) (Citizen folded in 2009)
- Tulsa, Oklahoma—Tulsa World publishing, and Tulsa Tribune folded in 1992
See also
- Stephen Barnett—law professor who campaigned against the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970
References
- Busterna, John C.; Picard, Robert G. (1993). Joint Operating Agreements: The Newspaper Preservation Act and Its Application. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. ISBN 9780893919948.
- ^ "Newspaper Marks 10 Years Since Sales, Merger". Chattanooga Times Free Press. January 4, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
- ^ "Choice Now In Chattanooga". Tuscaloosa News. August 28, 1966. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
- ^ ISBN 9780807061879.
- ^ a b Woodward, Tali; Redmond, Tim (May 10, 2000). "The Publishers' Six Big Lies: A Federal Trial Shows How SF's Daily Newspapers Have Misled the Public for Decades" (Word). San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved March 16, 2009.
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